IT Support Engineer Contracts in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median IT Support Engineer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £195, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 256 271 299
Rank change year-on-year +15 +28 +10
Contract jobs requiring an IT Support Engineer 80 129 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.62% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.68% 0.67% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 100 103
10th Percentile £135 £125 £130
25th Percentile £156 £143 £150
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £195 £175 £180
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% -2.78% -1.37%
75th Percentile £220 £215 £266
90th Percentile £301 £273 £348
UK median daily rate £211 £190 £195
% change year-on-year +11.18% -2.56% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 16
10th Percentile £18.20 £12.23 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.28 £16.25 £14.13
Median hourly rate £19.90 £18.27 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.89% +10.73% -5.71%
75th Percentile £32.31 £23.75 £23.19
90th Percentile £49.42 £43.75 £34.38
UK median hourly rate £22.73 £20.00 £16.25
% change year-on-year +13.65% +23.08% -7.14%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,767 19,240 22,667
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.63% 94.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,552 11,748 15,893
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% -1.60% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £595
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,243 1,165
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.45
25th Percentile £17.61 £15.75 £18.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -29.20% -6.94% +117.95%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

IT Support Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured IT Support Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for IT Support Engineer in the UK excluding London

IT Support Engineer
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing IT Support Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England +10 18 £189 -0.66% 41
South West +42 17 £220 +20.55% 24
South East +39 17 £263 +43.84% 37
North West +22 14 £188 +19.05% 11
Midlands +14 11 £145 -3.33% 38
West Midlands +19 9 £145 -3.33% 10
East of England +21 5 £180 -10.00% 18
Scotland +8 5 £250 +25.00% 7
Wales -6 5 £190 +31.03% 5
Yorkshire -1 4 £210 +5.00% 27
East Midlands -3 2 £125 -16.67% 27
Northern Ireland -8 2 £150 -28.57% 4
IT Support Engineer
UK

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, IT Support Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring IT Support Engineer in the job title.

1 51 (63.75%) Windows
2 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
3 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
4 30 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
5 24 (30.00%) Windows 10
5 24 (30.00%) Active Directory
6 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 16 (20.00%) Customer Service
8 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
8 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
9 13 (16.25%) ITIL
10 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
10 12 (15.00%) Service Delivery
10 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
11 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
11 11 (13.75%) Service Management
11 11 (13.75%) Degree
12 10 (12.50%) Azure
12 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
13 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
13 9 (11.25%) Project Management
14 8 (10.00%) Firewall
14 8 (10.00%) ITSM
14 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
14 8 (10.00%) VPN
14 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
14 8 (10.00%) Google
14 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
15 7 (8.75%) Software Licensing
15 7 (8.75%) Entra ID

IT Support Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.75%) SharePoint
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.50%) Apache
3 2 (2.50%) IIS
3 2 (2.50%) Tomcat
Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 30 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (12.50%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.00%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) Google Workspace
5 3 (3.75%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.50%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (15.00%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.00%) Firewall
2 8 (10.00%) VPN
3 6 (7.50%) DHCP
3 6 (7.50%) DNS
4 4 (5.00%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (3.75%) VoIP
6 2 (2.50%) Network Security
6 2 (2.50%) Remote Desktop
6 2 (2.50%) Skype
7 1 (1.25%) NAS
7 1 (1.25%) PBX
7 1 (1.25%) SAN
7 1 (1.25%) Softphone
7 1 (1.25%) VLAN
7 1 (1.25%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) MySQL
1 2 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
General
1 33 (41.25%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (11.25%) Public Sector
4 6 (7.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (6.25%) Finance
6 4 (5.00%) French Language
7 3 (3.75%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.50%) Electronics
8 2 (2.50%) Korean Language
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.25%) Back Office
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) .NET
1 2 (2.50%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (5.00%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (5.00%) iPhone
4 3 (3.75%) Driving Licence
4 3 (3.75%) Fat Client
4 3 (3.75%) Smartphone
4 3 (3.75%) Thin Client
5 2 (2.50%) CMDB
5 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.50%) iPad
5 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) NHS
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (63.75%) Windows
2 24 (30.00%) Windows 10
3 7 (8.75%) Mac OS
4 5 (6.25%) Apple iOS
5 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
6 3 (3.75%) Android
6 3 (3.75%) Linux
6 3 (3.75%) Windows 7
7 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 16 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 13 (16.25%) ITIL
4 12 (15.00%) Service Delivery
5 11 (13.75%) Service Management
6 9 (11.25%) Project Management
7 8 (10.00%) Computer Science
7 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
7 8 (10.00%) ITSM
8 7 (8.75%) Asset Management
8 7 (8.75%) Software Licensing
9 6 (7.50%) Ticket Management
10 4 (5.00%) Incident Management
10 4 (5.00%) Mobile Device Management
11 3 (3.75%) Coaching
11 3 (3.75%) User Experience
12 2 (2.50%) DevOps
12 2 (2.50%) IT Asset Management
12 2 (2.50%) Mentoring
12 2 (2.50%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.50%) PHP
2 2 (2.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (17.50%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.75%) Degree
2 11 (13.75%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.75%) A+ Certification
4 6 (7.50%) DBS Check
4 6 (7.50%) DV Cleared
4 6 (7.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (2.50%) Dell Certification
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 2 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) SLA
2 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
2 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.25%) NIST
System Software
1 24 (30.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.50%) Docker
2 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.25%) BitLocker
3 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (7.50%) SCCM
3 2 (2.50%) Autotask
3 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.25%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 43 (53.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.00%) Google
3 7 (8.75%) Dell
4 4 (5.00%) HP
4 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow
5 3 (3.75%) Apple
5 3 (3.75%) Cisco
5 3 (3.75%) Citrix
6 2 (2.50%) ConnectWise
6 2 (2.50%) Nexthink
6 2 (2.50%) SAP
6 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
6 2 (2.50%) VMware
7 1 (1.25%) IBM
7 1 (1.25%) MobileIron
7 1 (1.25%) Salesforce